OAKLAND — Oakland International Airport is showing a steady rebound from its coronavirus-linked nosedive in passenger traffic. Yet the East Bay aviation hub’s traffic remains well below where it stood prior to the outbreak of the deadly virus.
The East Bay airport handled 819,955 passengers in January, up 38.2% from the same month in 2022, aviation officials reported.
And during the 12-month period that ended in January, 11.37 million passengers transited through Oakland International, the new activity statistics show.
That annual pace of passenger flight activity is well ahead of what the airport accommodated in the last three years — but it’s still below the number of passengers who traveled